PHP-Typography

A PHP library for improving your web typography:

• Hyphenation — over 50 languages supported
• Space control, including:
  • widow protection
  • gluing values to units
  • forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses
• Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of:
  • quote marks (‘single’, “double”)
  • dashes ( – )
  • ellipses (…)
  • trademarks, copyright & service marks (™ ©)
  • math symbols (5×5×5=53)
  • fractions (¹⁄₁₆)
  • ordinal suffixes (1^st, 2^nd)
• CSS hooks for styling:
  • ampersands,
  • uppercase words,
  • numbers,
  • initial quotes & guillemets.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4.0 or above
• The mbstring extension

Installation

The best way to use this package is through Composer:

$ composer require mundschenk-at/php-typography
$ vendor/bin/update-iana.php

Basic Usage

1. Create a Settings object and enable the fixes you want.
2. Create a PHP_Typography instance and use it to process HTML fragments (or whole documents) using your defined settings.

$settings = new \PHP_Typography\Settings();
$settings->set_hyphenation( true );
$settings->set_hyphenation_language( 'en-US' );

$typo = new \PHP_Typography\PHP_Typography();

$hyphenated_html = $typo->process( $html_snippet, $settings );

Roadmap

Please have a look at ROADMAP file for upcoming releases.

License

PHP-Typography is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2 or later - see the LICENSE file for details.